Happily, President Muhammadu Buhari has in his national broadcast of Monday, given an insight into what a New Nigeria will look like with the definitive actions he has outlined to cleanse the rot in our country. The President believes we should pay special attention to process, beyond obsession with restructuring. I seem to agree with him. Most of our processes of ensuring distributive justice are fundamentally flawed. They are the reason for the agitation for restructuring. So, when the processes are fixed, it will even be easier to achieve restructuring without controversy or threat to our corporate existence.
The critical and urgent nature of the reform process however demands a correct appreciation from players in the mass media as providers of public service, through the style and content of our mediation or moderation of issues in the public sphere, by setting the agenda for reform in way and manner we frame issues and problems. The existence of trust between the government, the citizen and the press, and involvement at every stage of policy making process through public deliberation or participation will smoothen our ride along the difficult path of reform and inspire our preparedness for change.
This is the essence of Change, afterall, Allah does not change the condition of a people until they change what is in themselves.
Process Reform: If Nigeria Must Break Through
By
Abdulwarees
Assistant Director, Strategic Planning & Corporate Development, Voice of Nigeria, Broadcasting House, Ikoyi, Lagos, korewarith@yahoo.com 08090585723